America's right wing and their abettors on Fox News have no problem with the top income bracket (whoops, job creators) feeling entitled to their tax break. But when it comes to health care that includes free birth control, it's a different story. Many employers already provide free birth control as a result of a state mandate or employer policy. But when the Obama HHS issued its birth control policy, the GOP, the Catholic Church, and Fox News went into battle mode. The battle became even more heated after Georgetown Law student, Sandra Fluke, spoke to Democrats (after having been excluded from the official GOP hearing) about the unfairness of Georgetown's health insurance policy which covers birth control for employees but not for students who incur heavy expenses for their contraception. The rest, as they say, is history. Fox "News" wasted no time in smearing Fluke. Alleged "news" anchor Megyn Kelly started off by "joking" about all the sex that Fluke is having. She then moved into stage two of the smear by attacking Fluke for having a sense of "entitlement." And for added enjoyment, Monica Crowley, in the grand tradition of Rush Limbaugh, slut shamed Fluke and her fellow Georgetown students.

The day after Megyn Kelly and Trace Gallagher slut shamed Fluke (2/28), Kelly discussed the issue with Monica Crowley and Sally Kohn. Kelly continued the slut shaming. After playing the video of Fluke's discussion of the expense of contraception the slut shaming began. Crowley snarled "cry me a river" and claimed that Fluke was saying that "the American people" should pay for her to have sex. She cited the expense of Georgetown and asked "you're telling me you can't afford $3 for a condom?" Crowley added that Nancy Pelosi was "bleeding heart with I cannot believe you're incurring these costs cuz you want to have sex." When Crowley referenced Fluke's cost figures, Kelly said "that's a big number." Crowley"broke down" the numbers and estimated that "according to [Fluke's] calculations, these girls are having sex three times day." (Uh, Monica, the monthly birth control pill prescription is not based on the amount of sex). Kelly again joked, as she had the day before, that when she went to law school there wasn't time for anything beyond law school.

When Kohn explained that Fluke was asking that her health plan, not the tax payer, cover the birth control, Kelly interjected "it's not about the contraception debate" and asked "does this woman have a sense of entitlement that is indicative of a larger attitude in the country that if you don't have, somebody else is supposed to provide." After Kohn spoke to the issue of unfairness of Georgetown's policy, Kelly asked "do they have a right to play the victim when they don't have all of their birth control covered?" (This is on Fox "News" where conservative victimization is given pride of place!) Crowley agreed that "there is an expanding sense of entitlement." When she said that the Founders didn't say that, along with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, there should be a right to condoms, Kelly chime in, "a little nookie."

Kelly, whose Fox contract is, most likely, very lucrative talked about how much money Fluke will make as a Georgetown graduate. She noted that when she was in college she didn't go to congress to complain that "somebody needed to pay for my birth control pills." More slut shaming fromCrowley: "if you wanted to go and have sex, it was your responsibility to make sure you took care of yourself..."

Don't ya just hate it when slutty women want their birth control paid for? Don't ya hate that sense of entitlement? But wait, didn't Megyn Kelly once read right wing Mike Gallagher the riot act about paid maternity leave? Why should American women be "entitled" to that? What makes Kelly thinks she's "entitled" to something that "somebody else is supposed to provide?" I mean, really!!!!!

I think it’s fascinating that Kelly is putting the most time and effort into attacking Fluke. The morbid enthusiam she shows doing it kinda makes me wonder what kind of personal life she’s had that she has to act like this towards women who want rights equal to hers.

On a personal level, it’s pretty disgusting that she can almost top Hannity and O’Reilly combined in both air time and vindictiveness directed at the Georgetown students.

Is it a sense of entitlement when we ask our insurance to cover prescriptions, dr. visits and open heart surgery? It is a feature of the free market when insurance customers demand a service from the company that insures them. And the students are either directly paying for the insurance, or doing so through tuition. The students are the real customers, not the school.

This kind of thing may play well with the over-65 Fox viewers, but these people are doing long-term damage to their own party by trying to make birth control a sex issue instead of a health issue.